Inspiration

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Many Christians admit that they do not really know God. For other believers, lack of knowledge of God is the cause of vacillating spirituality, inconsistency between the talk and walk of faith, and ineffectiveness in prayer. For still others, inadequate knowledge of God accounts for the reluctant response to holy living and moral responsibility....
What does it mean to know God and live with a knowledge of it? It involves both intimacy and integrity. The intimacy of the Thou-I relationship we were created to experience with God requires the opening of our innermost being to Him just as He has revealed His innermost nature to us.
The word intimacy means "preceeding from within, inward, internal." In Hebrew the word for knowledge has the same root as "to know." It is also the physical and spiritual oneness of a husband and wife.
Knowledge of God is more than ideas about Him. It involves our total inner selves: intellect, emotion and will.

(from Climbing the Rainbow by Lloyd Ogilvie)
Life Lesson on Proverbs 30:1-33
The Inspirational Bible